The 2015 beach soccer season is set to start and two marquee qualifiers for the upcoming FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Portugal 2015 are quickly approaching
Hoisting the World Cup is what everyone dreams of but the difficult path soon begins for the Asian Football Confederation and the CONCACAF. The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2015 – AFC Qualifier Doha will begin the fight in Doha from the 23rd through the 28th of March. Almost at the same time, the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championships 2015 (The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2015 – CONCACAF Qualifier El Salvador) will commence in El Salvador on the 28th of March and finish on the 5th of April. Five of the sports will be at stake in just two weeks, as Asia will earn three spots for the World Cup and CONCACAF will earn two places.
The best teams in the regions will leave everything on the line in hopes of securing a berth in the next World Cup. The AFC has three teams in the top-15 of the BSWW Overall World Rankings, and two of those teams are in the top-10. Iran, the UAE, and Japan are those teams and will be favourites to win, but nothing is set in stone as each team will strive at Doha’s Katara Beach for beach soccer immortality in Portugal. Iran is ranked sixth in the world, the UAE is seventh, and Japan is 14th.
North America’s beach soccer landscape has little to no disparity and the teams that can qualify are still up in the air but you can rest assured that the hosts, El Salvador, and the USA will aim to repeat as champion and runner-up with the USA going for their second straight appearance in the Beach Soccer World Cup and El Salvador will have a fifth consecutive appearance on their mind. In the last qualifier, The CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championships 2013 (The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2013 – CONCACAF Qualifier Bahamas), The United States defeated El Salvador in the final.
Nothing will come easy for any team but the action will be non-stop, like always, and emotions will run high with tickets to the sports’ biggest event will be on the line.
